Archive for the 'On marriage and commitment' Category
Ten years ago today*
8 Comments Published October 7th, 2008 in Go hetero ally go!, On marriage and commitment, Seraphim/dakini.Ten years ago today, twenty-one-year-old college student Matthew Shepard was found, beaten, bloodied, comatose, and tied to a fence, near Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later, October 12, 1998, in a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Cathy Renna speaks for many of us in her Bilerico piece today on him (and all those lost to hate [...]
Register to vote! And then hang on tight to it!
1 Comment Published October 6th, 2008 in APB, On marriage and commitment.[I feel compelled to remind us all that the ongoing election season content caveat applies here: nothing directly relating to lesbians or children or lesbians' children appears below, except that we all ostensibly live in a democracy, whether vital or compromised or, as I often tend to think so many things are, a little bit [...]
Up and down and round and round
0 Comments Published October 2nd, 2008 in Miscellaney, Nonsense fun, On marriage and commitment.Talkin’ about the economy, talkin’ about national presidential politics, talkin’ about Baba’s state of mind. Not like you needed to have this spelled out, but menopause + the current economic and political drama = wild toggling between Baba’s paired impulses to either FREAK OUT! or CALM DOWN!
Since I’m still in Work Deadline Lockdown for at least another [...]
What do you give the couple who has everything?
2 Comments Published September 30th, 2008 in Nonsense fun, On marriage and commitment.
Everything, that is, but the assurance of legal recognition?
How ’bout a nice juicy donation to the No on Proposition 8 campaign? It’s all the rage at California weddings this season.
And for good reason. A donation goes with anything you’re wearing. It fits fine in your already crowded kitchen cabinets because it’s actually never going to [...]
San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders’ statement on same-sex marriage
2 Comments Published September 23rd, 2008 in On marriage and commitment.Okay, this was made almost exactly a year ago, but it’s as appropriate as if it was recorded yesterday. No on 8 folks reminded me of it by posting it on their website. That is, until yesterday, when they posted their new ad that’s currently on the airwaves in CA.
A print piece on Mayor Sanders’ press conference [...]
Marriage equality & our former babysitter
8 Comments Published September 19th, 2008 in Go hetero ally go!, On marriage and commitment.First, get out your hankies, if you’re the weepy type.
Second, watch for a quickie cameo by our former babysitter (hint: she’s testifier #3!). Yeah, we’re lucky.
Now if THIS was the post you decided to pass on to a friend, or co-worker, or whomever you haven’t already innundated with links or notices, then I will [...]
The sagacity of hope
8 Comments Published September 18th, 2008 in Go hetero ally go!, On marriage and commitment.My beloved is endearingly superstitious, a trait she inherited directly from her mother. Could be a theater thing. She spills some salt, she has to toss some over her left shoulder. We’re walking side-by-side and find we’re split up to pass by a pole or some such, and she’s compelled to say, “Bread and [...]
Marriage equality & my dad
6 Comments Published September 16th, 2008 in Go hetero ally go!, On marriage and commitment, Pops. This is my dad.
He is a life-long optimist. The older he gets, the more simply and purely he values love over all else.
He was legally married to my mom for upwards of thirty-three years. They’d still be married now, if she were alive. Hell, they still are.
He dearly wants California voters [...]




Lesbian Dad is written by a parent who answers to the name "Baba" and works toward a world in which amor does indeed vincit omnia. 


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